Steven J. Hill wrote:
[snip]
>Without the binutils patch, all binaries compiled for MIPS/Linux
>will be IRIX flavored which was the whole problem.
Please may You elaborate about this? AFAICS, the IRIX flavour
can't be a problem by itself.
>I would now
>like to make 'elf[32|64]_trad[little|big]mips' be the official
>targets instead of 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' which is what
>things currently are. This means changing of linker scripts in
>GLIBC as well as the Linux kernel (as far as I can tell). I would
>like to propose the any 'mips*-*-linux-gnu' and 'mips*el-*linux-gnu'
>targets be pure traditional targets WITHOUT any emulated IRIX targets
>which are the current 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' targets. Please
>provide feedback, comments, etc. with justification. Thanks.
Changing the MIPS/Linux ABI to circumvent a toolchain bug seems
to be a bit extremistic. Am I missing some important details?
Thiemo